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		<title>Yet more Ratebird.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I released Ratebird 0.32 with the aforementioned überfix for the RYM site.  Took a bit of noodling to get it to happen, but it turned out simpler was better and we got there in the end.   Basically if you&#8217;re on an artist page when signed in to RYM, your ratings for that artist&#8217;s releases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2010/07/15/yet-more-ratebird/</link>
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		<title>New version of Ratebird</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally pushed the work I&#8217;ve been sporadically doing on Ratebird over the last three months or so up to a.s.c (Songbird deserves an acronym for their addons site too). Basically I wanted to properly sort out the preferences, and implement my greasemonkey script for RYM into the extension &#8211; which ended up being one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2010/07/07/new-version-of-ratebird/</link>
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		<title>Zend Certification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I passed my Zend PHP5 Certification exam today, which has been a long time coming; work and life always managed to get in the way of studying for and, crucially, booking the exam itself. It was certainly more broad, less fiddly/fussy than the practice tests available on the Web, and thankfully with far fewer grammatical, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2010/07/05/zend-certification/</link>
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		<title>Gigs of the year&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forgot my favourite gigs of last year.  Just dragging them from Last.fm, so I may have missed some out: Ulver (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London) Agalloch (The Underworld, London) Gregor Samsa (Corporation, Sheffield) Faith No More (Brixton Academy, London) Burst/The Ocean (Corporation, Sheffield) Esoteric (Victoria Inn, Derby) This year&#8217;s list is highly likely to be topped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2010/02/06/gigs-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>New Extension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I got annoyed with looking up albums in RYM and decided to write something to extract the ratings into Songbird.  The result is here, it&#8217;s actually at 0.2 already because I&#8217;ve done quite a lot of work on it recently (whilst being something of a slack blogger).  Now all I need are the POTI [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2010/01/19/new-extension/</link>
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		<title>Some lists of stuff&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, here are my favourite albums of 2009 &#8211; as of now.  It is in vague order of appreciation, although don&#8217;t pay too much attention to the order as they are all fantastic. Blut aus Nord &#8211; Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars Nautic Depths &#8211; Siberian winter Mathias Grassow &#38; Tomas Weiss &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2010/01/11/some-lists-of-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Brewing Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dandelion &#38; Apricot Wine (May &#8217;09) &#8211; Tasty stuff, although it has had just over 6 months to get there.  Well integrated flavours &#8211; lots of fruit, flowery notes, ending on a big apricot aftertaste, spices and caramel (I used some proper awesome sun-dried apricots, innit). Elderberry &#38; Mulberry Wine (Oct &#8217;09) &#8211; Massive deep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2009/12/13/brewing-update/</link>
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		<title>Lack of activity&#8230;but lots of fruit.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I need to update this thing to reflect new job, new gubbins and other shizzle.  The transient nature of our existence sadly ensures that my site is only &#8220;up to date&#8221; (gigantic quotation fingers) for a few weeks before I fall behind again, but such is life.  It&#8217;s difficult to work coding websites all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2009/09/30/lack-of-activity-but-lots-of-fruit/</link>
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		<title>The Ocean/Burst, Sheffield Corporation 12/3/09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done a gig review for a while so here&#8217;s a quick one: I missed the two support acts but apparently they weren&#8217;t anything spectacular.  The Ocean started with a big puff of smoke and some vaguely generic naval-warfare themed video backdrop, and proceeded to execute their particularly epic brand of progressive sludge with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2009/03/13/the-oceanburst/</link>
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		<title>Assorted site woes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the mini-flurry of work I&#8217;ve been doing on this site recently, I&#8217;ve noticed that the loading speed is very slack.  I used the same tools as I use at work (Firebug, YSlow) to analyse the performance issue and have made a number of structural fixes that have made things a bit faster, but it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maister.org.uk/blog/2009/02/24/119/</link>
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